Shirley Highway Closures Planned This Weekend

Motorists who do
not need local exits north of the Capital Beltway are encouraged to use
the HOV lanes, which will be open to all drivers, VDOT spokesman Steve
Titunik said yesterday.

Others will have to take a
seven-mile detour through Van Dorn Street and Eisenhower Avenue, onto
the inner loop of the Beltway, he said.

The lanes on
I-395 will close from 8:30 p.m. tomorrow to 10 a.m. Sunday. Crews will
put up two steel beams that will help support the flyover linking
Interstate 95 north to the Beltway's outer loop, Titunik said. More
closures are expected in coming weeks as workers raise the remaining
beams.